Friday, July 19, 2013

nepal invote

Kathmandu, 19 July:The third Nepali leader hpt an official invite from Indian;s Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to visit India
to discuss Nepal’s
internal political issues in New Dehi.

Senior CPN-UML leader and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar

Nepal is
the third top party leader to be invited by New Delhi after Chairman Prachanda and Sher
Bahadur Deuba.

Nepal
will be in the Indian capital from 24 July, hiss aide said.

UML General Secretary Ishwor Pokharel and the party’s
foreign affairs

department member Rajan Bhattarai are accompanying Nepal.

The visit comes soon after leaders m including former prim
ministers,

queued at a hotel in the capital this month when visiting
Indian Foreign

Minister Salman Khurshid held a durbar urging political
parties to go for November elections.

The show was widely condemned for the manner in which it was
held for about three hours.

Chairman Jhalanath kHanal of UML has been bypassed while Nepal got the
invite..

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GRIEVING PARENTS OF DEAD SCHOOL CHILDREN GO ON
RAMPAGE IN BIHAR
Kathmandu, 19 July:- Grieving parents rampaged through Gandaman village in
Bihar to protest the deaths of 23 pupils who ate a poisoned school lunch and
the perceived slow police response to the tragedy, officials said on Friday,
Times of India reports from Bihar..
Parents smashed up the home of the school's headmistress and attacked
government offices in the village, where the children died after being served a
meal, apparently laced with insecticide, on Tuesday.
"Why have the police not been able to arrest the headmistress who
forced our children to eat poisonous
food? She should be killed," said bereaved father Surendra Rai, who took
part in the raid late Thursday after most of the children were buried.
Many of the victims, aged four to 12, from Gandaman village, were laid to
rest on a playing field adjacent to the primary school that served the free
meal of rice, lentils and potatoes — the only meal of the day for many.
Some 30 children remain sick in hospitals, mainly in the state capital Patna, officials said.
Police said they are probing whether the food or the cooking oil was
accidentally or deliberately poisoned, after initial tests showed traces of
insecticide. The results of forensic tests on the food are expected to be ready
later on Friday.
The parents of the dead children ransacked the home of headmistress Meena
Kumari, who fled the village as pupils started to fall ill, smashing windows
and attempting to set the property on fire, angry that she had not been
arrested.
Anguished parents overnight also tried to break into two small government
offices where food supplies, which are rationed for residents, are thought to be
stored, an AFP reporter at the scene said.
Rai said his eight-year-old daughter had died within minutes of eating the
lunch, echoing stories from other parents who said their children perished in
their arms before they could get them to hospital.
Senior police officer Sujit Kumar said they had raided the home of Kumari,
who fled with her husband and brother-in-law, when they saw children fainting
in the school.
"We found bags of fertilisers and pesticides kept next to bags of
potato and rice in the headmistress's house," Kumar said.
"She was an educated woman, so why was she storing poison and food
together?"
Parents said the headmistress had invited every child from the village to
attend school on Tuesday as she wanted to distribute free books and uniforms.
"I sent my daughter hoping she would get all the books for the year but
she never came home," said Ajay Kumar, a farmer whose five-year-old
daughter was among the victims.
A large field at the front of the school where the pupils used to play has
been turned into a mass graveyard, where many of the children have been buried
in protest at the tragedy.
Mounds dot the field marking individual graves where children were laid to
rest, many along with their favourite toys.